| August 19 |
Go over syllabus, Introduction to Computational Molecular Biology, a little Perl |
| August 24 |
Quiz 01, DNA, RNA, Protein, a little more Perl |
| August 26 |
Homework 01 due, Pairwise sequence alignment |
| August 31 |
Quiz 02, Pairwise sequence alignment, Substitution matrices |
| September 2 |
Amino acid substitution matrices, Homework 02 due on Sept. 3, 4:00 pm, Butler 300 |
| September 7 |
Quiz 03, Perl |
| September 9 |
Homework 3 due, Perl |
| September 14 |
Quiz 04, Amino acid substitution matrices |
| September 16 |
Homework 4 due, Multiple sequence alignment |
| September 21 |
Mulitple sequence alignment |
| September 23 |
Homework 5 due, Exam 1 distributed, Database searching |
| September 28 |
Database searching |
| September 30 |
Exam 1 due, Phylogenies |
| October 5 |
Perl |
| October 7 |
Phylogenies |
| October 12 |
Phylogenies, Homework 6 due |
| October 14 |
Distribute project assignments, Perl |
| October 19 |
Fall break |
| October 21 |
Guest Lecture: Dr. Walter Diehl |
| October 26 |
No class |
| October 28 |
Guest Lecture: Dr. John Boyle. Gene finding |
| November 2 |
Markov models |
| November 4 |
Progress reports on projects due, Exam 02 distributed, |
| November 9 |
Protein structure prediction |
November 11
| Proteomics, Exam 02 due |
| November 16 |
Proteomics |
November 18
| Genome analysis |
| November 23 |
Genome analysis |
| November 25 |
Thanksgiving holiday |
| November 30 |
Class project presentations
Final exam distributed |
| December 2 |
Class project presentations, Project report due |
| December 6 |
Final Exam due, 4:00 pm |